Railway-car.



PATENTED JUNE 5, 1906.

H. F. VOGEL,

RAILWAY GAR.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. s

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H. F. VOGEL.

RAILWAY GAR.

APPLICATION PILED IEB.8.1905.

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PATENTED JUNE 5, 1906.

H. F. VOGBL.

RAILWAY GAR.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. a. 1905.

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irlEliRY F. VUGEL, UF LOUIS, MISSOURL ASSlUNOR TO ST. LOUIS CAR C(hviPANY, OF ST. LOUlS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATEON.

RAELWAY CAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 8, 1905. Serial No. 244,742.

Patented June 5, 1906.

To all? whom it IR-2f concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY F. VoeEL, a citizen of the Uni ted States, residing in the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented tcrtain new and useful Improvements in. Railway-Cars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specificatron.

My invention relates to that'class of rail- Wav-cars having, a plurality of side passageways located at intervals along the car sides mid having doors for controlling said passage-ways.

My present improvement has for its object to provide a novel arrangement of said doors and novel means for actuating them in pairs series.

igure a horizontal section taken 1 ouch one end of my car. Fig. ll a side 'ation of a portion of the car. Fig. ll 7 i." a "vr 'Ucul transverse section taken on line iii Fig. i l. Fig. lV is an elevation. of a pair the passageway-controlling doors, their gportinp; means, and the means hy which cy are actuated. Fig. V is a top or plan iow ol the d'; s shown. in Fig. 1V and the -1rach-rails on which [he hangers of said doors his. Vi is a top or plan view oi the pressLire-receiving cylinder and conducting-pdpes, through. the mediumv ol' whicl the LttF-(lOU'lS are operated.

A designates my car, at one end of which the motormans compartment B. At inrvals along the sides of the car are passageways, through which the passengers may entor or leave the car. At each oi such pasmnys are steps 1. (See Figs. 5 [and lil nor: entrance and exit to and from the car led at oneside, the doors at the other .1. lo remain in closed condition, and the par.-r-sa above the steps 1 in the car-lloor are hs'i'h'l by trap-do rs .3, that are hinged. to the limo! and are suscc njihle of being raised to permit access to the stops when said doors are in open condition.

3 designates the doors that control the side entranceways and which are adapted to slide from said entrance-ways into positions between the panels located intinmediate of said outrai'ice wvays. The doors 3 are arranged in pairs and are so mounted that one of each pair may move into the space between a pair of panels 4 in one direction and the other door into said space in the opposite direction. Suitably supported above each pair of doors 3 is a pair of track-rails 5, arranged in parallel. T hcse traclerails receive the rollers or door-hangers 6, that are secured to the doors 3 and are adapted to ride on said track-rails, the hangers oi one door operz'iting on one rail and the hangers of the other door riding on the track-rail ad jacent to the first named. By this arrangement the doors are so "mounted that they may be brought side to side when they are moved in opposite directions and into position between the panels 4, whereas when they are moved in the reverse directions they are carried to the passage-ways in the side of the car.

For the purpose of operating the doors in pairs or series, so that the series may he opened or closed simultaneously, 1 utilize a nrechanical opening and closing mechanism, which will next be described.

7 designates a fluid-pressure tank carried by the car and preferably located beneath the lioor thereof, as seen in dotted lines, Fig. I. S is a ilnid-conduetinp pipe leading from said tank-to a controlling-valve 9, that is located in the motormans ooi'npartment B, as

- seen in Fig. I.

'l l) a delivery ilnid-oonducting pipe leading; from the controlling-valve 9, and ii is an exhaust or return pipe connected to said con trolling-valve. ()ne fluid-pressure tank is utilized for supplying pressure medium to several pairs of doors, aswshown in dotted lines in Fig. I.

2 designates a fluid-receiving cylinder located zuljacent to the track-rails 5, on which the door-haiwers 6 operate. 'lhis cylinder h as connected to it the lluid delivery and return pipes H) and 1], and in the cylinder is a piston 13, that is carried by a piston-rod 14-, which is connected to one 01 the hangers of one of the doors 3, as seen in Fig.5. lV. vision is thereby made for the imparting of movement to the door by which said particular hanger is carried. when rociprocathm is in'ipartcd to said piston-rod.

.5 is a spring surrounding the piston-rod l4 andflmaring against the piston lb, by which said piston is norn'ially pressed in a di- "hanger to which it is connected.

rection toward the end of the cylinder 12 to which the fluid-conducting pipes 10 and 1 are connected.

16 designates a pull-rod fixed to the hanger 6 to which the piston-rod 14 is connected, and 17 is a pull-chain also connected to said hanger. This pull-chain passes from the hanger referred to to and around a sheave 1S, journaled to one of the supports of the trackrails 5, and thence forwardly and has connected to it a pullrod it), that is in turn connected to the hanger 6 of the second door 3. To this last-nanied hanger attached a pullchain 20, that leads to and around a sheave 2], journaled to one of the traclerail supports, and thence forwardly, and which is united to the pull-rod 16.

In the practical use of in doors they are operated in the following manner: When ui is permitted to flow from the tank 7 through the pipe Sand into the delivery-pipe 10-upon manipulation of the controllingvalve t} it, enters the receiving-c y]inder l2 and acts to press the piston 13 forwardly against the restraining action of the pistonretracting spring 15. The doors previously in closed condition and guarding the passageways into the car are then moved into open condition from the positions seen in full lines, Figs. IV and V, to the positions seen in dotted lines, Fig. V, this n'iovcn'lcnt being accomplished by the Forward reciprocation of the piston-rod 14, which acts upon the door- As this l l l l l l l l l l l l l l I l y I) i l l l i l r han er travels i'orwardl it carries therewith {he pull-chain 17, which acts to draw the anger of the second door toward the hanger port, a

the hangers of one of of the first door through the medium of the pull-rod 19. the movement being continued until the doors are side by side. fluid exhausted from the receiving-cylinder 12 through the return-pipe 11 by maniPllla.-..

(ion of the controlling-valve 9, the retractingspring 1 5 acts to return the piston 13 and its rod 114- to their normal positions, and as these parts are moved the hanger to which the piston-rod connected is drawn with said piston-rod, and the pullrod 16 and pull-chain 20 act to return the second door to closed position, while the first door is being returned to a closed position by the piston-rod.

I claim as my invention- The con'ihination with a railway-car having side passage-ways located at intervals, of a pair oi sliding doors controlling adjacent passageways, a pair of parallel track-rails above sa' l passage-ways, hang rs connected. to each said doors and traveling on said track-rails, a support at the end of each trmdtrail, a sheave jmirnaled in each sup- I'luiil-pressure-receiving cylinder, a piston in said cylinder, a piston-rod extcnd- "om said piston and cm'inected to one of said doors, a pull-red connected tonne of the hangers of each door, and a pair of pull-chains connecting one hanger with the pull-rod of the other hanger and passing over said sheaves, substantially set forth Ii'l'CNRY F. \ZOGEL. in presence ol'---- Amnun Dmmmnn Mun-Par.

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